Announce 5.2.9

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+Online HTML           [**5.2.9**][a5dir 52]     [5.2.x (GIT)][a5now ol] [4.4.0][st ol]     
 
 
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+PDF format            [5.2.9][a5pdf 52]                                 [4.2.1][st pdf]    
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 [a5now ol]: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/trunk/index.html
 [a5dir ol]: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/
-[a5dir 52]: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/5.2.8/
-[a5pdf 52]: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/5.2.8/refman.pdf
+[a5dir 52]: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/5.2.9/
+[a5pdf 52]: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/5.2.9/refman.pdf
 
 [Allegro.cc's manuals](http://www.allegro.cc/manual/) -
 <br/>

diff --git a/en/changes-5.2/changes-5.2.txt b/en/changes-5.2/changes-5.2.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,135 @@
 
 These lists serve as summaries; the full histories are in the git repository.
 
+Changes from 5.2.8 to 5.2.9 (November 2023)
+===========================================
+
+Android:
+
+- Fix back button/gesture (alemart)
+
+- Implement `al_get_joystick_name` (alemart)
+
+- Great many assorted fixes (alemart)
+
+Audio:
+
+- Add `al_get_mixer_has_attached` and `al_get_voice_has_attached` (TRDario)
+
+- Fix `al_set_audio_stream_playmode` return value and interaction with looping
+  audio streams (Cody Licorish)
+
+- Send PulseAudio silence if the attached mixer is stopped (SiegeLord)
+
+Acodec:
+
+- voc memory leak fixes (TRDario)
+
+- Fix internal looping for mod files (SiegeLord)
+
+Build system:
+
+- Add a target for copying examples, letting you build the demo without the
+  examples (SiegeLord).
+
+- Improve CMake scripts (Gilad Reich)
+
+- Support the newer WebP library which is split into two (SiegeLord).
+
+Core:
+
+- Add `al_can_set_keyboard_leds` and `al_can_get_mouse_cursor_position`
+  (TRDario)
+
+- Allow outputting logs to STDOUT via ALLEGRO_TRACE environment variable
+  (SiegeLord)
+
+- Add `al_get_current_shader` (TRDario)
+
+- Add `al_get_window_borders` for Windows and Linux (Elias Pschernig +
+  SiegeLord)
+
+TTF:
+
+- Fixes for `al_get_glyph_width`, `al_get_glyph_al_get_glyph` when interacting
+  with zero-width/zero-height glyphs (Connor Clark)
+
+MacOS:
+
+- Don't close submenus on click (Todd Cope)
+
+- Fix disabling menu items (Todd Cope)
+
+- Add support for filtering by file extensions in the native file dialog (Todd
+  Cope)
+
+- Textlog improvements (Connor Clark)
+
+- Fix improper display boundary for cursors (Connor Clark)
+
+- Make `al_get_joystick_name` return the name of the joystick (Todd Cope)
+
+- Fix off-by-one error for hat switches (Connor Clark)
+
+- Add a workaround for live resizing not working. Enable it via `[osx]
+  allow_live_resize = false` in `allegro5.cfg` and then listen and respect
+  `ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_HALT/RESUME_DRAWING` events (#1350) (SiegeLord + Elias
+  Pschernig)
+
+Linux:
+
+- Fix fullscreen window creation (#1349) (SiegeLord)
+
+- Fix some X11 + fullscreen window interaction (#1358) (SiegeLord)
+
+- Allow setting higher quality icons (SiegeLord + Trent Gamblin)
+
+- Improve `DISPLAY_SWITCH_IN/OUT` events (#1390, #1367) (SiegeLord)
+
+- Work on improving Window positioning (Elias Pschernig)
+
+- Fix creating an initially maximized window (SiegeLord)
+
+- Enable toggling and setting maximized/frameless modes when menus are used
+  (SiegeLord)
+
+- Fix popup menu (#1280) (SiegeLord)
+
+- Make AltGr (right Alt) toggle the `ALLEGRO_KEYMOD_ALTGR` modifier (SiegeLord)
+
+Windows:
+
+- Fix drawable area mouse hiding state being out of sync (#1388) (SiegeLord)
+
+- Fix some oddities with Shift + Alt on Windows (#1348)
+
+- Work on improving Window positioning (SiegeLord)
+
+- Make native file dialog respect the initial directory when
+  `ALLEGRO_FILECHOOSER_FOLDER` is set (José Carlos HR)
+
+- Fix the client area changing size on Windows when restoring a window (#1433)
+  (SiegeLord)
+
+- Fix crashes with menus and Windows (#1381) (SiegeLord)
+
+- Fix keyboard modifier keys + char events (#1504, #1430) (SiegeLord)
+
+SDL:
+
+- Fix touch ids (Sebastian Krzyszkowiak)
+
+- Fix `al_get_mouse_state` crash (Elias Pschernig)
+
+- Implement `al_create_mouse_cursor` (Connor Clark)
+
+- Implement `al_get_monitor_dpi` (Elias Pschernig)
+
+Documentation:
+
+- Assorted clarifications and improvements (various)
+
+
 Changes from 5.2.7 to 5.2.8 (June 2022)
 ========================================
 
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diff --git a/en/download/download b/en/download/download
@@ -25,21 +25,21 @@ You can read the [full change log](changes.html).
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Filename                        Size    Description
 ------------------------------- ------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-[allegro-5.2.8.0.zip]             10.4M Source code for all platforms in
+[allegro-5.2.9.0.zip]             10.4M Source code for all platforms in
                                         Windows friendly format.
 
-[allegro-5.2.8.0.tar.gz]           9.4M Source code for all platforms in Unix
+[allegro-5.2.9.0.tar.gz]           9.4M Source code for all platforms in Unix
                                         friendly format.
 
-[allegro-5.2.8.0.7z]               8.1M Source code for all platforms in Windows
+[allegro-5.2.9.0.7z]               8.1M Source code for all platforms in Windows
                                         friendly format.
 
 [Browse all files]
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-[allegro-5.2.8.0.zip]:    https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.8.0/allegro-5.2.8.0.zip
-[allegro-5.2.8.0.tar.gz]: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.8.0/allegro-5.2.8.0.tar.gz
-[allegro-5.2.8.0.7z]:     https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.8.0/allegro-5.2.8.0.7z
+[allegro-5.2.9.0.zip]:    https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.9.0/allegro-5.2.9.0.zip
+[allegro-5.2.9.0.tar.gz]: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.9.0/allegro-5.2.9.0.tar.gz
+[allegro-5.2.9.0.7z]:     https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.9.0/allegro-5.2.9.0.7z
 [Browse all files]:     https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases
 
 ## Windows Binaries {#windows}

diff --git a/en/news/news.2023-11-25 b/en/news/news.2023-11-25
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+## 2023-11-25 - Allegro 5.2.9 released!
+
+After a lot of delays, a new stable release of Allegro is upon us! There were a
+lot of bug fixes, and a small number of API improvements. Thanks to all users
+who reported issues, filed feature requests and especially those that sent in
+pull requests.
+
+A summary of the changes can be found [here][changes 5.2].
+
+You can download the sources and MinGW binaries from
+[GitHub](https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/5.2.9.0/). Additional
+packages for other platforms are available on the [downloads] page.